IP attaché publications

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Click on the categories below to see a list of recent publications by and about the USPTO’s IP attachés and their work throughout the world.

What can your IP attaché do for you?

IP attaché publications: What can you IP attaché do for you?

Learn how the USPTO’s IP attachés have used their expertise to serve the best interests of U.S. stakeholders around the world in an article by D. Beryl Gardner, USPTO Attorney-Advisor (Trademarks) titled IP Attachés: Global Advocates for U.S. Stakeholders in Foreign Markets [courtesy of American Bar Association]
Learn about the impacts of IP attaché services on a wide variety of U.S. stakeholders in an article by IP Attache Program director Dominic Keating and primary patent examiner Bratislav Stankovic titled Serving America: The USPTO's IP Attaché Program. [Courtesy of Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society].
IP Attaché Program Director Dominic Keating discusses how IP attachés provide services to practitioners and their clients [Courtesy of American Bar Association’s Landslide magazine]
Learn how USPTO’s IP Attaché Program can assist U.S. stakeholders in an article co-authored by Director of the IP Attaché Program Dominic Keating and IP Attaché Conrad Wong entitled USPTO’s Intellectual Property Attaché Program: How it Can Help. [Courtesy of Michigan State University Brand Protection Journal]
IP attachés discuss how they assist brand owners to effectively address IP policy and protection issues based on their in-depth understanding of foreign country practices. [Courtesy of Managing Intellectual Property]
IP Attaché Program Director Dominic Keating and Thomas Young, USPTO Attorney-Advisor (Trademarks), describe how the IP Attaché Program helps U.S. businesses and other stakeholders [Courtesy of AIPLA Innovate magazine]

IP Attaché Outreach in the United States

USPTO’s IP Attaché Program Acting Director Deborah Lashley-Johnson joins IP attachés to discuss international IP issues impacting critical and emerging technology areas and the creative arts with U.S. stakeholders in Orlando and Atlanta. (Courtesy of Inventors Digest)
Director's Blog: Directors of the USPTO's Rocky Mountain Regional Office and Midwest Elijah J. McCoy Regional Outreach Office highlight IP attaché assistance to U.S. stakeholders abroad.
Hope Shimabuku, USPTO’s Director of the Southwest Regional Outreach Office, blogs about her outreach meetings with the IP attaches in the Dallas area.
Director's Blog: IP attachés join former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu to meet with stakeholders in Seattle.
John Cabeca, USPTO’s former Director of the Western Regional Outreach Office, blogs about his outreach meetings with the IP attaches in Long Beach.
Director's Blog: USPTO’s former Chief Policy Officer Shira Perlmutter joins IP attachés to discuss international trademark protection and other IP matters with US stakeholders in Boston.
IP Attaches deliver remarks at the International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting in Seattle.
Director's Blog: USPTO's IP Attaché Program director Dominic Keating joins IP attachés to discuss patent protection for biotech products and other IP matters with US stakeholders in New Orleans.

IP attachés at work

IP Attaché, Duncan Willson, based in Beijing, China, discusses the latest IP developments in China in an interview conducted by Managing Intellectual Property. [Courtesy of Managing Intellectual Property]
In an interview, Attaché in the Middle East, Pete Mehravari, discusses the pirate site BeoutQ and suggests options to address it [ Courtesy of the Pensinsula ]
IP Attaché in the Middle East, Pete Mehravari, discusses recent trends regarding IP protection in Kuwait. [KUNA News Agency]
IP attaché Debbie Lashley-Johnson co-organized and moderates World Trade Organization (WTO) side event on how IP can enable MSMEs to develop green technology for a sustainable economy.
Former IP Attaché Joel Blank, based in Beijing, China, explains the critical role of IP in China. This article originally published in Chinese on http://www.yicai.com/ (link is external) [ Courtesy of Yicai/China Business News media group

IP attaché publications: Copyright and the digital economy

Former IP Attaché Ann Chaitovitz, based in Lima, Peru, talks about how new technologies are changing the distribution of creative materials in this interview conducted at the Bogotá International Book Fair in April 2016. [ Courtesy of the Copyright Clearance Center ]

Combatting counterfeits

Former IP Attaché Mike Mangelson, based in Shanghai, China, comments to the World Intellectual Property Review about the State Council of China’s efforts to crack down on trademark counterfeiting. [ Courtesy of INTA Daily News]

Basic tips on IP rights for a new business

Former IP attaché for the Middle East and North Africa, Aisha Salem, discusses the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) protection for startup companies. [ Courtesy of Communicate Kuwait Magazine ]
In an interview, IP attaché Pete Mehravari discusses IP protection for startups in the field of green technology. [ Courtesy of U.S. Embassy Cairo ]

IP attachés in the news

News Article: IP attaché Pete Mehravari works with the government of Kuwait to update the copyright law, improve IP enforcement and remove Kuwait from Special 301 Watch List. [ Courtesy of Kuwait Times ]
Press Release: IP attachés elevated to diplomatic rank of "counselor.
News Article: IP attaché, Peter Mehravari, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, brand owners, and the Ajman Department of Economic Development (DED) met to discuss the DED’s recent fines of 300 establishments to stop counterfeiting. [Courtesy of Emirates News Agency]

IP attachés participate in annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce roundtable discussion

IP attaché publications: IP attachés participate in the annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce roundtable discussion

Event: The 16th annual USPTO-GIPC IP attaché roundtable video. (December 2022)

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Click on the categories below to see a list of recent publications by and about the USPTO’s IP attachés and their work throughout the world.